Tip 3: Balancing co-curricular

Now I'm going be realistic, you have to always put your academic work before you do any co-curricular. In saying this, I'm not suggesting that you completely quite all sports and arts just to focus on your school work. In fact I think that it's quite beneficial to have a mix of academics and co-curricular. The key to having a balance is to do everything in moderation. If you have a three term commitment to a production, then consider not doing rowing. If you want to do sport in term 1 and 2 than consider not joining debating. Do you see the pattern? Try not to join everything, because when exam week comes you might find yourself struggling to keep up with both your academics and co-curricular. Not only will your grades might drop, but if you don't give your 100% commitment for your team, then you will be letting your team down as well.

This is a tip that has been helping me since year 7. So I've applied this tip for a good 4 years now, and I can tell you that it works. Basically for each section/ topic of a subject, I would write with a different colour. So each topic of my notes would be in a different colour. For example, let's say you're studying for a human biology test, for the respiratory system you'll use a blue coloured pen to write, and for the digestive system you'll use a pink. Now I'm not sure about the logistics behind my reasoning, but for some reason when test time comes every time I think of the colour blue, all the information I know about the respiratory system comes flooding in. This is a true story, I used this tip for my year 10 human biology test and I got an A. I think it's also worth mentioning I studied and wrote my notes the day before. So the moral of the story, first don't study the day before for a test and that this tip works. The second way to colour code is through highlighting. For example for history each iconic date that I'll need to remember I'll use a orange highlighter, and for every iconic person in history I'd a yellow highlighter. Do you see what I'm doing? Basically I'm highlighting important bits of my notes and categorizing them by colour. Colour coding has definitely helped me for my studies and as another plus it makes my notes look pretty.

Now how do I dress for a study day? Everytime I wear an outfit I keep a two things in mind:
1. Is it practical for what I'm doing that day
2. What do I feel like wearing



Since I was studying that day, I had to dress practical. When you're studying, comfort is key so try to choose materials that won't leave you irritated or have you constantly moving. Shorts, for me are the way to go, they allow more free body movement in comparison to a dress or skirt in my opinion. Last but not least shoes. Be practical, wear something that is comfortable and again easy to move in, for me sneakers, slip on sneakers, flats (I think you get it) are the way to go.



As for what I feel like wearing, each day varies and it so happened that today I wanted to wear a sport luxe look. Hence why I have a cap and a backpack. I also really wanted to style my new Saba shorts which I had purchased recently. At the end of the day, I feel that I just want to wear what I want to wear, and I encourage you guys to do the same thing.


Quickly want to mention how in love I am with my new lipstick. My sister purchased it for me, since this is a shade I would've never thought of purchasing for myself. It's a amazing bronze, metallic colour from Bobbi Brown in the shade 09- Brown Shimmer. Both me and my sister dislike sparkles in our lipsticks, but for some strange reason I love it in this lipstick. I'm officially obsessed!

Outfit Details:

Camisole - H&M

Shorts - Saba

Cap - Evan Evina 

Shoes - Windsor Smith

Watch - Mimco

Sunglasses - Roc Eyewear

Backpack - Seed Heritage 

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